Contents

• Definitions and scientific and technical principles
• Primary energy
  • Gaseous energy sources
  • Liquid energy sources
  • Solid energy sources
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Renewable Energies
• Greenhouse gas emissions
• Secondary and final energy
  • Electricity
  • Heat
  • Hydrogen
• Energy transport and storage
• Digitalization of the energy industry

The accompanying exercise deepens the material through arithmetical exercises.

Learning goals and competences
After successful completion of this module the students are able to,

• to define basic terms of the energy industry technical vocabulary.
• to explain fundamental correlations of the energy industry along the energy series.
• to name the magnitudes of resources and reserves of the essential primary energy sources as well as to explain technical boundary conditions and processes in the context of extraction and utilization.
• explain essential characteristics of value chains and markets for selected primary, secondary and final energy sources.
• to be able to assess current developments in the transformation of the energy system itself.

They acquire

• in-depth and interdisciplinary methodological competence and
• the ability to think in a networked and critical manner.

Students will practice initial approaches to scientific learning and thinking and will be able to

• develop complex problems in technical systems in a structured way and solve them in an interdisciplinary way using suitable methods,
• transfer knowledge/skills to concrete system engineering problems.